SpringFramework - Classpath issues

If it's one thing that drives me insane with java development its the classpath. I'm starting to look at the Spring Framework...

• I've copied spring.jar to my WEB-INF/lib
• I've edited my struts-config.xml to define the context plugin
• I've modified one action to use DelegatingActionProxy
• I've defined one bean in action-servlet.xml to match the action

Without setting doing any dependency injection or anything fancy, I deploy my application and see that it still runs, and that Spring is has hapilly delegated to my action and everything works as it did. So now I want to inject the reference to my EJB and add the following bean definition:

<bean id="mailLogSearch" class="org.springframework.ejb.access.LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean">
  <property name="jndiName"><value>bulletinmail/MailLogSearch</value></property>
  <property name="businessInterface"><value>com.bulletinwireless.bulletinmail.ejb.MailLogSearch</value></property>
</bean>

Now I restart the application server and blam:

15:29:47,162 INFO  [XmlBeanDefinitionReader] Loading XML bean definitions from resource
    [/WEB-INF/action-servlet.xml] of ServletContext
15:29:47,332 ERROR [ContextLoaderPlugIn] Context initialization failed
    org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: Error registering bean with name
    'mailLogSearch' defined in resource [/WEB-INF/action-servlet.xml] of ServletContext: Bean class 
[org.springframework.ejb.access.LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean] not found;
    nested exception is java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
org.springframework.ejb.access.LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.ejb.access.LocalStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean
        at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:199)
        at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
        at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
        at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
        at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219)
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.createBeanDefinition(
            BeanDefinitionReaderUtils.java:50)

The jar's in place, the class is there... if I reference other classes from the same jar in action-servlet.xml they're found, but not this. And so ends my first day of spring...

Any one know whats up? Note: I downloaded spring-framework-1.1-with-dependencies.zip, deploying under JBoss 3.2.5, on Fedora Core 2.

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